By Charlotte Webster
Eating out and buying take away food are responsible for a 50% rise in food poisoning cases. The doubling of food poisoning since 2009 account for the majority of norovirus cases.
Around 2.4 million cases are recorded every year, compared to about one million in 2009, a study by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) found. Food is linked to around 380,000 cases of norovirus, a type of infectious intestinal disease (IID) commonly known as the winter vomiting bug, every year.
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There are about 2.4m cases of food poisoning in the UK every year – more than double the estimate in 2009, according to the Food Standards Agency. Innovative new research has provided a more accurate assessment of how many cases of infectious intestinal diseases (IID) were caused by food, the Uk watchdog has said. The percentage of norovirus cases linked to food is now just over 12% of all three million cases annually, the agency said, following a 2009 estimate of 2.5% (73,000).
Eating out accounts for 37% of all food-borne norovirus cases and takeaways account for 26%.Over the past decade the UK’s takeaway scene has boomed, with the launch of intermediary delivery companies such as Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo. Most operate via an app, with the British online food delivery industry worth £4.2bn as of this year, with 22.5m users, according to market data collector Statista.
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